Improvement in quilting-frames



UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICEO JOHN H. SHEETS, OF HARTFORD, MINNESOTA.

IMPROVEMENT lN QUlLTlNG-FRAMES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 174,445, dated March 7, 1876; application filed December 11, 1875.

' To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN H. SHEE'rs, of Hartford, Todd county, Minnesota, have invented anew and Improved Quilting Apparatus, of which the following is a specificatiOn:

My improved quilting apparatus consists of parallel rollers for holding and adjusting the quilt, together with their holding-ratchets,

oross-pieces on which they are mounted; O, the holding ratchets; D, the suspendingcords; E, the traveler, and F the overhead rail whereon the traveler works.

The traveler consists in this example of a grooved wheel and a yoke suspended from it, but it may be contrived in any approved way.

By this apparatus a quilt may be easily fed through a sewing-machine, or shifted along by a hand-sewer, as the work progresses.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The combination of the parallel rollers A, supporting-bars B, suspending-cords D, traveler E, and overhead rail F, substantially as specified.

JOHN H. SHEETS. Witnesses:

CHARLES W. DRILL, IsAmE SARFF. 

